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"The hardest part" of breast cancer under 40

1 year ago
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“The hardest part” of breast cancer under 40.

Diagnosed with stage 4 metastatic breast cancer at 37, she told CBS News that two-and-a-half years in, there have been so many changes in her life – from navigating conversations about cancer with her two young children to managing work and treatments and keeping family life on track.

Beth Caldwell, who is being treated for stage 4 metastatic breast cancer, snuggles with her family, including her husband J, and her children, Maggie and Jim.

They may have family, friends or neighbors who have it, but they tend to be older,” Gralow said.

Once in a while I’ll see someone in my age range and be like, let’s make friends,” Caldwell joked as she sat in the hospital and talked by phone with CBS News.

It’s not the way stage 4 works,” she said.

I am a cancer patient.

Giving up work was hard, though.

I mostly just hadn’t met other patients with metastatic breast cancer.

But she’s also seen many men cope well when their partners get breast cancer.